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New York Times:
Former Trump University Workers Call the School a ‘Lie’ and a ‘Scheme’ in Testimony — In blunt testimony revealed on Tuesday, former managers of Trump University, the for-profit school started by Donald J. Trump, portray it as an unscrupulous business that relied on high-pressure sales tactics …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Clinton camp leverages Rubio ‘con man’ hit on Trump — Hillary Clinton's campaign on Wednesday looked to take up the mantle of Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio, who once denounced Donald Trump as a “con man,” kicking off a series of tweets hitting the presumptive GOP nominee for his business practices …
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Washington Post, ABC News, Political Wire and Joe.My.God.
Matt Ford / The Atlantic:
The Art of the Swindle — Predators, by and large, do not attack the strongest prey in the wild. They instead target the vulnerable, the very young, and the very old—the prey that is least able to defend itself. — Trump University, the defunct real-estate education program created …
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New York Times, Common Dreams and Guardian
New York Times:
Donald Trump and the Judge
Donald Trump and the Judge
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Media Matters for America, La Opinión, CNN, Hit & Run, Politico, BillMoyers.com and Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Trump involved in crafting controversial Trump University ads, executive testified
Trump involved in crafting controversial Trump University ads, executive testified
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Mother Jones, New York Magazine, NBC News, CBS New York, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, Consumerist and ThinkProgress
Christina Wilkie / The Huffington Post:
Inside The Trump University ‘Playbook’
Inside The Trump University ‘Playbook’
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Washington Monthly, Politico, CNN, Breitbart, New York Times and Vox
Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
The Donald Trump Conversation: Politics' “Dark Heart” Is Having the Best Time Anyone's Ever Had — At home in Beverly Hills, the candidate talks Murdoch, what he's reading, how he'll redo electoral math and Ari Emanuel's offer to script his convention. — The long day is ending for Donald Trump …
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The Hill, ThinkProgress, Associated Press, The Atlantic, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, Guardian, Mediaite, Mashable, twitchy.com and The Week
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Donald Trump Appears Unfamiliar With Term ‘Brexit’ — During a discussion on pockets of anti-immigrant beliefs in Europe, interviewer Michael Wolff asked Trump, “And Brexit? Your position?” — “Huh?” Trump asked in response, according to the Hollywood Reporter. — “Brexit,” Wolff then repeated.
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Vox and The Daily Caller
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Clinton launching national security case against Trump in California speech — Retired Army Col. Peter Mansoor plans to vote for Hillary Clinton for president this year, but not because the longtime Republican and former top aide to then-Gen. David Petraeus has had a political conversion.
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Bloomberg.com, Daily Kos and The Week
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Douglas E. Schoen / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton Might Not Be the Nominee — A Sanders win in California would turbocharge the mounting Democratic unease about her viability. — There is now more than a theoretical chance that Hillary Clinton may not be the Democratic nominee for president. — How could that happen …
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Washington Examiner and RedState
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Leading liberals begin new push to unify Democrats around Clinton
Leading liberals begin new push to unify Democrats around Clinton
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Politicus USA
Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Whither Jerry Brown Goes, So Will Many Democrats
Stacey Burling / Philly.com:
Study: More Americans are having gay sex — A growing number of Americans are having gay sex, or at least admitting to it. And that's OK with more and more of us. — “People over time are reporting more same-sex sexual experiences than ever before,” said Brooke Wells …
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Half of voters think Clinton's private email server use was illegal — Half of all voters think that Hillary Clinton — 's use of a private email server during her time as secretary of State was illegal, according to a new Morning Consult poll released Wednesday.
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Morning Consult, The Gateway Pundit, Scared Monkeys, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Heat Street
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Poll: Voters Uneasy About Hillary Clinton's Private Email Usage
Poll: Voters Uneasy About Hillary Clinton's Private Email Usage
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Politico
Bloomberg:
Kristol Eyes Conservative Lawyer for Independent Presidential Run — Bill Kristol is considering recruiting David French to run against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, two Republicans tell Bloomberg Politics. — MarkHalperin — jheil — Two Republicans intimately familiar …
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Politico, The Atlantic, Media Matters for America, GOP.com, The Daily Beast, Washington Post, Towleroad, Lawyers, Guns & Money, National Review, Breitbart, The Federalist, Outside the Beltway, Fox News, BizPac Review, alicublog, Joe.My.God., CNN, New York Magazine, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, No More Mister Nice Blog, Townhall.com, Business Insider, LifeNews.com, The Right Scoop, The Week, ABC News, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Newser, RedState, Hot Air, Independent Journal …, Mediaite, Bold and Weekly Standard
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
Play — NOTABLES —WHO IS DAVID FRENCH?
Play — NOTABLES —WHO IS DAVID FRENCH?
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Washington Post and YouGov US Opinion Center News
Associated Press:
Where the money went: Trump details fundraising for vets
Where the money went: Trump details fundraising for vets
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Wall Street Journal, Talking Points Memo, alan.com, Hit & Run, Los Angeles Times, FOX News Radio, Washington Post, BillMoyers.com, The Hill, Washington Free Beacon, The Week, Associated Press, Mediaite, New York Magazine, Media Matters for America, NPR, The Atlantic, Politicus USA, NBC News, Slantpoint, ThinkProgress, Reuters, Jezebel and The Huffington Post
Matthew Herper / Forbes:
From $4.5 Billion To Nothing: Forbes Revises Estimated Net Worth Of Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes — Last year, Elizabeth Holmes topped the FORBES list of America's Richest Self-Made Women with a net worth of $4.5 billion. Today, FORBES is lowering our estimate of her net worth to nothing.
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The Reality-Based Community
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Records: Hillary Clinton Has Donated $70,000 To Veterans — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill Clinton have donated $70,000 to veterans and military groups from their personal Clinton Family Foundation in recent years, according to public records.
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CNN, The Gateway Pundit and BizPac Review
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Rachel Stockman / LawNewz:
Guess Who Else Paid Out Big Bucks For Clinton Speeches?
Guess Who Else Paid Out Big Bucks For Clinton Speeches?
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BizPac Review, The Last Refuge and The American Spectator
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
How the GOP effort to oust IRS chief could backfire — For over a year, House conservatives have been clamoring to remove IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. But now that the impeachment process is moving forward, they face a delicate decision: Are they willing to toss 200-plus years of precedent to bring him down?
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Daily Kos and Politicus USA
Media Matters for America:
Rush Limbaugh Baffled By Evolution — RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): This woman obviously has not read Genesis, and even if she did it wouldn't have any impact on her. But human beings travel all over the world to gawk at animals precisely because they're unusual, they're interesting, some are cute, some are deadly.
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Raw Story and Friendly Atheist
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Kevin Litten / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Louisiana begins enrolling 375,000 people into Medicaid — Gov. John Bel Edwards unveils “Healthy Louisiana,” the replacement for Bayou Health, during a news conference at CareSouth Center in Baton Rouge. … Department of Health and Hospitals will begin the massive task Wednesday (June 1) …
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Booman Tribune and The Hayride
Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Larry Pratt: If Conservatives Lose The Supreme Court, We May ‘Have To Resort To The Bullet Box’ — Larry Pratt, the executive director emeritus of Gun Owners of America, said on his “Gun Owners News Hour” radio program this weekend that if a Democrat wins the White House …
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Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, liberalamerica.org, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Anya / People.com:
House Speaker Paul Ryan Reveals ‘the Hardest Question’ He Gets (and It's Not About Donald Trump) — Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan says he wasn't trying to make parenting history last fall when he accepted the job of House Speaker on one condition: weekends off at home with his wife and their three kids.
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Politico
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Inside Democrats' Trump-fueled scramble to take back the House — Vice President Biden stood on a stage at a Democratic retreat in Baltimore in late January and made a bold prediction: Democrats could win back control of the House of Representatives this year. — “It's been a tough last couple of cycles,” he said.
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Politico
Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Suspected Tattoo on Iranian Actress Creates a Commotion — TEHRAN — A popular Iranian actress whose latest movie won two awards at the recent Cannes Film Festival threw her native country into an uproar on Tuesday after images emerged suggesting that she had a feminist tattoo on her arm.
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Newser
Dustin Volz / Reuters:
U.S. court says no warrant needed for cellphone location data — Police do not need a warrant to obtain a person's cellphone location data held by wireless carriers, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday, dealing a setback to privacy advocates. — The full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond …
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Hit & Run and Common Dreams
Agence France-Presse:
Dalai Lama says ‘too many’ refugees in Europe — BERLIN: Tibetan Spiritual leader Dalai Lama said in an interview published that Europe has accepted “too many” refugees, and that they should eventually return to help rebuild their home countries. — “When we look into the face of every single refugee …
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Breitbart, RedState, Washington Post, Vlad Tepes, Creeping Sharia, The Right Scoop, Fox News Insider and The Daily Caller
Craig Bannister / mrctv.org/videos:
Obama: Prepare to Flee Climate-Caused Hurricane Devastation — Pres. Obama called for every American to put together a disaster supply kit and evacuation plan because climate change is bringing “more powerful and more devastating” hurricanes to the U.S. - even though the U.S. hasn't been hit …
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The Daily Caller, Pirate's Cove and Truth Revolt